I was listening to Sufjan Stevens’ song “I Walked” on his new album The Age of Adz when it occurred to me how much in keeping his work is with the project of Romanticism. Like the Romantics, Sufjan is alienated from the values of the culture into which he happened to be born. He is [...]
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From the Barbaric Heart: Sufjan Stevens’ Vengeful Play
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Age of Adz, Beethoven, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Hagen, Plato, Plotinus, Romanticism, Shelley, Sufjan Stevens, sun ra, William Blake on April 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »